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Ulrich Bus Reimbursement Program Fundraiser Launch

The Ulrich Bus Reimbursement Program needs your support! Through a recently-launched GiveCampus campaign, we have until
August 31st to reach our goal of raising $6,000 for our bus reimbursement program,
which helps us bring thousands of students from all over the Wichita and surrounding
areas to the Ulrich Museum each year. Many of these students would likely not get
to visit an art museum otherwise. Please help us reach this goal—and support a worthy
cause; to contribute, visit our GiveCampus page!

Upcoming Events

Fall Exhibition Opening

Thursday, September 12, 5–8 P.M.

The Ulrich invites you to join us for an exploration of our newest suite of exhibitions
on display this fall. Ulrich receptions are a conversation, a gathering, an engagement
of artists and art enthusiasts intertwined with music, fine fare, and possibility.

Ulrich receptions are free and open to the public. For additional information call
(316) 978-3664 or email ulrich@wichita.edu.

Coming Soon: A New Ulrich Website

Features will include:

This fall we will vastly expand the Museum’s teaching, learning and research function
by introducing the first public access portal to the Museum's searchable collection
database for close to 7000 objects.

Our mission is to expand human experience through encounters with the art of our time.

As the region's source for modern and contemporary art, the Ulrich Museum of Art at
Wichita State University connects viewers with artists and artworks that reflect our
world today. Visitors can explore and enjoy 20th- and 21st-century art with exhibitions
that feature emerging and established artists, works from our permanent collection,
and traveling exhibitions.

The WSU campus is home to the Ulrich Museum's renowned Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture
Collection, rated one of the top collections of its kind by Public Art Review. The
museum holds a permanent collection of more than 6,700 works by such artists as Benny
Andrews, Diane Arbus, Helen Frankenthaler, Zhang Huan, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Mitchell,
Robert Motherwell, Rodney McMillian, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith, Kara Walker and
Andy Warhol.

To learn more about our dynamic public programs, events and exhibitions at the Ulrich,
visit our Art and News & Events pages, and follow the Ulrich Museum on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Admission, parking, and group tours are FREE.

Special Exhibition:

Lowell Nesbitt: Apollo, 1969

ON DISPLAYAugust 19–November 17, 2019 | John Bardo Center, 2nd floor

In 1969, the artist Lowell Nesbitt was invited by NASA to create artwork to commemorate the Apollo 9 mission — the first flight
of the full Apollo space­craft that would eventually take humans to the moon later
that year during the Apollo 11 mission. Based on his time at Cape Canaveral, Nesbitt produced a portfolio of prints that will be on view during this special exhibition timed
to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions.

On view in the John Bardo Center (formerly the Experiential Engineering building),
where WSU faculty and students continue to conduct NASA-funded research to this day,
this exhibition will be the pilot for the new Ulrich Connections project through which
the Ulrich Museum will look for strategic partnerships on and off campus to raise
the visibility of the museum’s collection and bring it to new audiences.

Below: Lowell Nesbitt, Spacesuit Checkout, 1969, screen print, Gift of Dr. Udo Kultermann at the School of Architecture at
Washington University, St. Louis, Collection of the Ulrich Museum of Art, 1982.19.b

Sponsored by WSU’s College of Engineering and NASA in Kansas.

Teachable Moments: The XXII Faculty Biennial

ON DISPLAYSeptember 12–December 8, 2019

A tradition in its forty-fourth year on the WSU campus, the Faculty Biennial represents
the breadth of creative work and research being undertaken by the faculty of the School
of Art, Design, and Creative Industries. This year's exhibition will showcase the
faculty's work in art history and education, ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting,
photography, printmaking, sculpture, and new media. The theme, "teachable moments,"
seeks to prompt reflections and start conversations about the role of both formal
education and informal learning in creative work, and the relationships between the
faculty's art-making and research and the time spent mentoring WSU students in the
classroom and beyond.

The exhibition will be accompanied by short, informal lunch-hour talks to be given
by each participating artist and one-hour research presentations by faculty who do
not have work on view in the gallery. Talks will take place on Tuesdays from 12:30-1:30
p.m. between September 17th and November 26th, with two talks happening each Tuesday.
Additionally, on October 1, Dr. Brittany Lockard, assistant professor of art history
at WSU, will present her research in a talk titled "The Secret Language of Food and
Women's Art."

Below: works by faculty members Jennifer Ray, Marco Hernandez, and Ted Adler.

Clay Currents: The Wichita National Ceramics Invitational

ON DISPLAYSeptember 12–December 8, 2019

Clay possesses a truly remarkable versatility that the Wichita National Ceramics Invitational
will highlight. Bringing together nearly thirty artists from around the United States,
this exhibition will showcase the range of possibilities that contemporary ceramicists
are exploring. With two earlier editions having taken place at the Reuben Saunders
Gallery, this exhibition, now in its third year, will continue to introduce the Wichita
community to some of the most exciting work being done in clay today.

Programs in conjunction with the exhibition will include workshops and talks by two
ceramics artists, John Nealy and Pattie Chalmers, as well as a public talk by the
prominent ceramics collector Louise Rosenfield and a panel discussion with artists
Pattie Chalmers, Trisha Coates, and WSU's Ted Adler.

Below: (From left to right) works by Pattie Chalmers, I Remember This Day, 2018, earthenware and mixed media, image courtesy of the artist; and Virgil Ortiz,
Thunder from the Watchman series, 2016, Cone 5, Bmix clay and gunmetal acrylic detail, image courtesy of the
artist.

Sponsored by Emprise Bank and Fidelity Bank.

Solving for X = Accessibility

ON DISPLAYSeptember 12–December 8, 2019 | Grafly Gallery

Solving for X is a series of exhibitions organized by the Ulrich Museum of Art in collaboration
with university scholars across campus. The intent of the Museum is to work with WSUscholars in all disciplines to create visualizations of theirresearch. The objective is to explore the potential for theMuseum to make accessible to the public the fascinating and important research taking
place on campus. We are thrilled by the opportunity to work with researchers across
campus and excited about the challenges we will face together indiscovering how to create visual pathways to understanding.

Our second project in the series features the research ofDr. Vinod Namboodiri, Professor, Department of ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science, working in collaboration with Dr. Nils Hakansson,
Associate Professor, BiomedicalEngineering. They are developing GuideBeacon, a wayfinding app that uses beacons to
assist blind and visually (BVI) and mobility impaired people in navigating between
any two (indoor or outdoor) points.

We are transforming the Grafly Gallery into a test site forGuideBeacon by offering multi-sensory access to a selection of works of art from the
Museum’s permanent collection.

GuideBeacon will have directional information, as well as experiential content featuring
vivid descriptions of art works displayed in the Grafly Gallery and sculptures featured
on the Kouri Sculpture Terrace. On the terrace, located across from the second floor
galleries, sculptures can be explored through direct contact, offering immediate personalexperiences with original works of art.

The Ulrich Museum of Art joins other Museums around the globe in recognizing that
everyone has the right to participate in the cultural life of the community. We are
working closely with WSU’s Office of Instructional Design and Access to create touchable
tactile representations of works of art from the Museum’s collection. Andy Warhol’s
screen print, Chicken’n Dumplings, from 1969, is an example of one of five works included in Solving for X that will be on display with corresponding tactile graphics. Visitors can use the GuideBeacon
app to gain an understanding of the spatial context of the gallery, letting them know
where to find each work of art and guiding them to it. Once a piece has been located,
visitors can choose to explore the tactile graphic while listening to a vivid description
of the work. Vivid and supportive descriptions make up the experiential content of
the app. Also included in the exhibition will be opportunities for sighted people,
through simulations of BVI experiences, to increase understanding and awareness.

We thank Dr. Vinod Namboodiri and his graduate students Seyed Ali Cheraghi and Ali
Almadan for working with us to make the marvelous GuideBeacon our second Solving for X project. Thanks also toDr. Nils Hakansson for his support and advice.

We are grateful to our lead sponsor, ENVISION for the amazing work they do in our community and beyond. Information on ENVISION
will be available at the Museum during the run of the show.

Below: Blind and visually-impaired museum visitors interacting with the tactile graphic
of a work of art.

Sponsored by Envision.

Zoe Beloff: Emotions Go to Work

ON DISPLAYJanuary 23–March 29, 2020

Zoe Beloff's interactive multi-media installation Emotions Go to Work investigates how technology is used to turn our feelings into valuable assets. One
might call it the transformation of emotion into capital. The project, accompanied
by a limted-edition book, is an exploration of the "dream life of technology" and
of our imaginative and imagined relationships with machines - how we create them in
our image, shape them to serve our desires, and how they, in turn, reshape us.

Beloff is an artist and filmmaker who lives in and works in New York City. Her projects
often involve a range of media including films, drawings, and archival documents organized
around a theme. Over the course of a thirty-year career, her interests have included
psychoanalysis, mediums, and mental health institutions; new forms of community; anti-fascist
art and activism; and, recently, the history of relationships between labor, technology,
and our emotional lives. In all she does, her work attests to a belief that critique
and protest should be vibrant, humorous, and colorful - a carnival of resistance to
light the way in dark times.

Emotions Go to Work will be accompanied by a film series co-curated by the artist and Rebecca Cleman
of Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.

ON DISPLAYJanuary 23–March 29, 2020

Based largely on the Ulrich's uniquely rich holdings of works by Lee Adler (1926-2003),
this exhibition will reassess the legacy of a forgotten artist and show how the imagery
he created in the 1960s and 1970s foreshadowed urgent present-day concerns about the
way human lives have become intertwined with the technology that surrounds them.

A native of Brooklyn in its industrial heyday, Adler came to art-making in his forties,
having already established a successful career in marketing - he worked for a time
at one of the advertising firms featured on the TV show Mad Men. He threw himself head first into his new pursuit throughout the late 1960s and 1970s.
Adler contributed as his answer a visual remarkably tied to the forms of living things.
At once whimsical and unnerving, Adler's compositions evoke processes of ingestion,
digestion, and explusion of matter as it moves through both living and mechanical
systems. In Adler's work, the machines are humanized while human figures become machines,
and his forms continue to capture something essential today about our reality as hapless
cyborgs confused about where "nature" ends and technological culture begins.

ON DISPLAYJanuary 23–March 29, 2020 | Amsden Gallery

The exhibition A.P. Vague: Digital Palimpsest(s) presents a series of experiments in which the artist considers the materials of image-making
as aesthetic resources in themselves. In analog photography, cameras and film were
designed to be essentially invisible throughout much of their history. Meant to capture
and reproduce the observable world, the technologies themselves faded into the background.
Such expectations of imaging technology have carried over into the age of digital
photography, as well. But what happens when these tools not only stop functioning
as accurate recording devices, but actually become entirely disconnected from any
observed reality?

The works included in this exhibition are made using a variety of strategies for manipulating
photographs toward abstraction. The artist’s aim is to build his own lexicon of distortion
so the results might evoke an aesthetic of transformation and discovery during the
creative process. Each image is treated according to its formal properties such as
color, composition, texture, and density, without regard for what may be depicted.
Using both digital and analog tools, Vague deconstructs the imagery in each piece
to create new forms that hold latent -- ghostly -- remnants of the originals.

At the root of Vague’s inquiry are the questions of how we trust photographic images,
how they communicate their meanings across distance, and how they create a sense of
personal connection to remote events. Does a negative still bear the imprint of the
moment it was exposed, even if the visual information is blurred beyond recognition?
In the age of fake news, Photoshop, filters galore, and truthiness, what can we believe
about an image and what can we trust the image-maker to reveal?

ON DISPLAYApril 16–July 12, 2020

We all need to get away sometimes - to take a vacation from the oridnary. And what
can transport our imagination better than art? It helps our thoughts wander, encourages
reflection on life's journeys, and takes us places where we may not be able to go
by any other means. In the summer of 2020, during the season of vacations when many
of us will be looking for a change of scenery and a change of pace, the Ulrich will
present On Vacation! to celebrate the fun and excitement of visiting an art museum.

Drawn entirely from the Ulrich permanent collection, the shows will feature approximately
ten series of prints that capture images of places and events that present an exciting
array of possible vacation spots - from big cities (Berlin and New York) to small-town
diners, from the beach to a bullfight and the circus.

Accompanied by a series of programs that will engage visitors with both the art and
with related experiences found right here in Wichita, this exhibition will be the
perfect way to get away from it all while still getting to sleep in the comfort of
your own bed.

Below: works by George Grosz, The Voice of the City, c. 1935, color lithograph, Gift of Dr. Frederick Ziman, Collection of the Ulrich
Museum of Art, 1973.36.11; and John Baeder, Red Robin, 1980, screen print on paper, Gift of Mr. Monis Schuster care of London Arts Group,
Collection of the Ulrich Museum of Art, 1995.71.

At the Ulrich Museum of Art, exhibitions and programs are the foundation of our operations
and our outreach to the community. We rely on your support to sustain this important
work and thank you for your generosity.

Coat and bag check

The Ulrich Museum requires visitors to check backpacks, shopping bags, and all large
bags with a gallery guard or with the front desk on the first floor of the Museum.
The Ulrich Museum provides a limited number of secure lockers free to visitors.

Photography

Visitors may take non‐flash, personal‐use photography except where noted. Share your
images with us @ulrichmuseum #ulrichmuseum on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Food and drink

Food and drink may not be carried into the galleries Inside the galleries: For the
safety of the art, pens and markers are not permitted within the galleries. Pencils
are available at the front desk. As a courtesy to other museumgoers, cell phone conversations
should be conducted outside of the galleries.

Parking

The Ulrich Museum provides four spaces near the front of the building that are reserved
specifically for our guests, more information about parking on the WSU campus can be found at wichita.edu/parking.

The Ulrich Museum of Art’s Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection boasts 80 works
spread across the 330-acre Wichita State University campus.

Funds to assure long-term care of this important collection are provided by the Joan
S. Beren Outdoor Sculpture Conservation Fund.

Download the Ulrich Museum of Art mobile app for non-stop access to the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection through self-guided
tours using images, text, video, and audio. the Ulrich app also includes a family
tour, interactive maps, and more.

The Ulrich Museum of Art was established in 1974 to enhance and support Wichita State
University's educational and service mission. Then-president Clark Ahlberg believed
a superior university should be ever mindful of the thriving city surrounding it.
In 1977 he articulated his commitment to this belief: "We have an obligation to reach
as many people as possible and to do it with the highest standards—in this case, the
highest artistic standards—if we are to properly serve this urban area." To execute
his plan to make art an integral part of university and community life, Ahlberg recruited
Dr. Martin H. Bush, formerly of Syracuse University. In 1971 Bush began his 20-year
tenure as vice president of Academic Resources, during which he guided the establishment
of a museum and collection that today enjoy a national reputation. In 2005 the American
Association of Museums in Washington, D.C., awarded museum accreditation to the Ulrich,
as one of only 12 accredited museums in Kansas.

The museum was named in honor of Edwin A. Ulrich, a Hyde Park, New York, businessman
who donated his collection of more than 300 works by the early 20th-century painter
Frederick Judd Waugh and set up an endowment to support the new institution. The founding
of the Ulrich coincided with the construction of a new facility for the museum and
the WSU School of Art and Design and Creative Industries, the McKnight Art Center.
A 1995 renovation created additional gallery and office space as well as a terraced
sculpture court at the entrance.

A key element of President Ahlberg's master plan for an enhanced university environment
in the 1970s was the presence of major works of art situated outdoors throughout the
campus. Today the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection at Wichita State University
boasts around 80 monumental works by such internationally eminent artists as Arman,
Fernando Botero, Andy Goldsworthy, Barbara Hepworth, Luis Alfonso Jimenez, and Claes
Oldenburg. In 2006 the journal Public Art Review ranked the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection among the ten best on an American
university campus.

The Ulrich Museum of Art is governed by its parent organization, Wichita State University.
The museum director reports to the Provost.

The Museum is supported by the Ulrich Advisory Board, composed of no more than 25
university and community leaders. The Advisory Board reports to the WSU Foundation,
which holds legal title to the museum's art collection. The long-term purposes and
policies of the museum are subject to review by the Kansas Board of Regents.

The Ulrich benefits from a second support group. The Ulrich Museum Alliance, an association
of no more than 18 individuals, supports the museum by providing active volunteers
who are committed to:

Ethical and legal considerations prohibit Ulrich staff from appraising or authenticating
works of art for the public. Museum curators may not provide information on monetary
value or physical condition of works of art.

The national organizers cited below provide information on professionals who do provide
appraisals:

Ulrich Sponsorship

Ulrich Museum of Art Mobile App

The Ulrich Museum of Art mobile app offers non-stop access to the Martin H. Bush Outdoor
Sculpture Collection located on the campus of Wichita State University, through self-guided
tours using images, text, video, and audio. the Ulrich app also includes a family
tour, interactive maps, and more.

Fall 2019 Ulrich Update

Kevin Mullins: Fire in the Paint Locker

The stunning new exhibition catalogue, "Kevin Mullins: Fire in the Paint Locker,"
is now available. This gorgeous retrospective of an important Wichita-based artist,
published by the Ulrich Museum of Art, features more than 100 color images and four
color fold-outs.